RUN RECAP: The Amazing Spider-Man

Welcome to the first issue of Run Recap. A simple overview of a given run with all the important 1st Appearances and Key issues you should be aware of. For the debut, I decided on The Amazing Spider-Man. While this is easily one of the most popular runs in comics, and arguably the number one run folks attempt to make, it's important to separate the relevant from the not so much. The run is littered with first appearances and classic covers. Here is my humble attempt at documenting them in one place. Due to the volume and volatility of variants, I opted to leave them out.

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Nice Rundown Ben! i’d love to see some of the info expanded on, for instance why a character is popular or if they have potential down the road. Madame Web and Hobgoblin are two characters i’m looking to pick up high grade copies of because i think they have potential. Also, while they’re not keys i’d love to see the big variants mentioned like 571 2nd print or 688 JSC. Great list so far!

Verrrrrry nice….it was very informative.
What I would have like to see is Mark Bagley and Eric Larson mentioned… or at least show a couple of their covers.
Bagley and Larson might not have done any key issues but they were both important to the Spiderman run.

Great article, however how do you leave #42 off the list? #25 just makes mention of her and you don’t actually see Mary Jane until the very end of #42 where she famously says “face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot.” For #316, that’s the 1st Venom cover, not just a classic McFarlane cover. I look forward to a Batman article like this for both Detective and Batman :-).

There seems to be some important books left out that are much much better than ASM 263. Which is over promoted in my opinion. You can’t have a key ASM run without…. Well…..
Every other single digit issue,11,16,17,33,39,40,51,56,96-98,100,119-120,135,149.